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Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba – Ba Power
Powerful Afro-rock from the Hendrix of the ngoniBassekou KouyatéThe ngoni isn’t much of an instrument to look at. Four strings, traditionally cut from lengths of fishing line, are pulled across a...
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Rickie Lee Jones – The Other Side Of Desire
Spectacular late career turn, crowd-funded in the Big EasyRichie Lee JonesWhen Uncut last caught up with Rickie Lee Jones in 2012, she cheerfully admitted to suffering from writer’s block. “That’s why...
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Baaba Maal – The Traveller
Senegalese singer and guitarist is back on trackAfrican artists who gain global recognition can swiftly find themselves hijacked by the great and the good of the liberal establishment. In the interests...
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Kris Kristofferson – The Complete Monument & Columbia Album Collection
Country wildcat's Monumental box, including five extra discs of lives, demos and outtakesCountry music was never the same after the day in 1969 when Kris Kristofferson landed his helicopter in Johnny...
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Marvin Gaye – Volume Three 1971 – 1981
Where the Prince Of Soul comes of ageOne night in 1971, Marvin Gaye called Berry Gordy at his vacation home in the Bahamas and told him he was planning to make a protest album. “With the world...
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Judy Henske and Jerry Yester – Farewell Aldebaran
The genre-defying, Zappa-approved, folk-prog-jazz experimenters lovingly revisitedOn June 16, 1969, Frank Zappa’s wonderfully outré Straight label released two characteristically left-field albums. One...
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Billy Bragg & Joe Henry – Shine A Light – Field Recordings From The Great...
Two latterday Woody Guthries make tracks for the heart of AmericaPhoto by Jacob BlickenstaffEver since the railroad opened up the continent more than 150 years ago, train songs have played a special...
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Mose Allison – I’m Not Talkin’: The Song Stylings Of Mose Allison 1957 – 1971
Timely retrospective of a distinctive bluesman and "genre in his own right"Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images“They stole my music but they gave me my name,” Muddy Waters once said of The...
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Son Volt – Notes Of Blue
Jay Farrar's reflective eighth may be his best in yearsWhen alt-country pioneers Uncle Tupelo broke up in 1994, Jeff Tweedy persuaded most of the band’s cohorts to join him in Wilco, while Jay Farrar,...
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Dino Valenti – Dino Valenti
A hallucinogenic hidden treasureHe only ever released one solo album and the record company spelt his name wrong on the cover. The sessions were chaotic, even by the freewheeling standards of stoned...
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Mélissa Laveaux – Radyo Siwèl
The Parisian Canadian offers bewitching songs of love and HaitiHaiti has long been one of the poorest nations in the western hemisphere – and perhaps the most unstable, with a history littered with...
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Still On The Run: The Jeff Beck Story
Bio-doc can’t quite catch up with the elusive guitar legendPerhaps the key to this engaging but at times frustrating portrait of one of rock’n’roll’s most canonical guitarists comes when Aerosmith’s...
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Bobbie Gentry – The Girl From Chickasaw County
Delta singer/storyteller’s Capitol LPs boxed and generously supplementedIf there’s one question more perplexing than why Billie Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge in “Ode To Billie Joe”,...
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Neil Young on his greatest hits: “The songs are on their own little trip, I...
Shakey recalls the creation of some of his classic songsPhoto by Gems/RedfernsOriginally published in Uncut’s December 2004 issue In this epic archive feature, Neil Young himself explains the making of...
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David Attenborough – My Field Recordings From Across The Planet
The naturalist’s rediscovered tapes of indigenous musicPhoto BBC/Sarah Dunn In his 2001 book Songcatchers, Mickey Hart engagingly describes his extracurricular adventures away from the Grateful Dead,...
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Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba – Miri
Six strings good, four strings better on Malian virtuoso’s fifthPhoto by Thomas DornOn the cover of Bassekou Kouyate’s fifth album, his huge hands grasp a tiny instrument that to the uninitiated looks...
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Rhiannon Giddens With Francesco Turrisi – There Is No Other
An acoustic ‘side project’ of some potencyPhoto by Karen CoxRhiannon Giddens has yet to record a ‘proper’ follow-up to her brilliant second solo album Freedom Highway, but there has been no escaping...
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Manu Chao – Clandestino / Bloody Border
Laptop revolutionary’s solo debut, revisited 20 years onPhoto ©Youri LenquetteManu Chao was in a bad way when his band Mano Negra broke up in 1994. Intended as a potent Gallic equivalent of The Clash,...
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